Copyright (C) 1993-1998 Sebastiano Vigna
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Todd M. Lewis and Sebastiano Vigna

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• Introduction
• Basics
• Reference
• Commands
• Configuration
• Hints and Tricks
• Motivations and Design
• History
• Portability Problems
• Acknowledgments
• Concept Index
• Command Index

Introduction

ne is a full screen text editor for UN*X (or, more precisely, for POSIX: see section Motivations and Design). I came to the decision to write such an editor after getting completely sick of vi, both from a feature and user interface point of view. I needed an editor that I could use through a telnet connection or a phone line and that wouldn't fire off a full-blown LITHP(1) operating system just to do some editing.

A concise overview of the main features follows:

• three user interfaces: control keystrokes, command line, and menus; keystrokes and menus are completely configurable;
• the number of documents and clips, the dimensions of the display, and the file/line lengths are limited only by the integer size of the machine;
• simple scripting language where scripts can be generated via an idiotproof record/play method;
• unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
• automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being edited;
• a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
• extended regular expression search and replace a la emacs and vi;
• editing of binary files.

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